Archive for April 11th, 2008

Shuttle's AMD-powered XPC G5 6801M loves Blu-ray and HD DVD

Friday, April 11th, 2008

Filed under: Desktops, Media PCs While Shuttle's KPC most certainly wasn't aimed at the enthusiast in the crowd, its newest XPC definitely is. The XPC G5 6801M gets going with an AMD Athlon 64 X2 4200+ processor, 2GB of DDR2 RAM, a 320GB hard drive, LG's GGC-H20L Blu-ray / HD ...

Video: HPI’s G-Dog will hunt

Friday, April 11th, 2008

Filed under: RobotsAnnounced last week, we now have the first video of HPI's G-Dog courtesy of Impress. HPI's definitely not going for cute and cuddly here; this cyberdog's all bite and surprisingly quick and nimble on that slick tabletop. As such our plans to slather the Earth in linoleum after ...

Gibson intros SG Robot Guitar, new edition of Les Paul version

Friday, April 11th, 2008

Filed under: Misc. Gadgets Last time we saw the Gibson Robot Guitar it was in the hands of Yngwie Malmsteen, who was laying down gorgeous, undulating waves of pure classical-metal fever. The first version of the self-tuning Les Paul was a rather limited edition, but now Gibson is sharing the wealth ...

Canon’s Rebel XSi turns up in retail spy shot

Friday, April 11th, 2008

Filed under: Digital Cameras You know that Rebel XSi we saw pop up on Amazon? Well thanks to a tipster, we now know it's appearing in more than one location. That photo above shows one of these babies fresh out of a shipping crate at Best Buy -- so if you've ...

Olympus Mju 1030 SW gets reviewed

Friday, April 11th, 2008

Filed under: Digital Cameras Olympus' Mju 1030 SW compact digital camera got a little lost in the jumble of cameras that the company released earlier this year, but the folks at Photography Blog have now given the compact shooter its due with a a full review. As you might expect, the ...

NVIDIA continues to hate on Intel, promises sub-$45 integrated chipset

Friday, April 11th, 2008

Filed under: Desktops, Laptops Following up yesterday's trash talk with a little action, NVIDIA has disclosed plans to create a sub-$45 processing platform which the GPU-maker is calling, "The World's Most Affordable Vista Premium PC." The architecture will combine VIA's Isaiah processor with an integrated NVIDIA graphics chipset, which the company ...